Device for holding pipe-nipples



(No Model.)

T; GIBNEY. DEVICE I'OR HOLDING PIPE NIPILBS.

No. 515,826. i Patented Mar. 6, 1894.

WIZ'JVESSES.' [WYE/V201@ 'V/ i/// 6d-24% Y UNITED STATES PATENT @Finca TERENCE 'GIBNEY, OF ROCKAWAY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO ISRAEL D.

CONDIT, JR., OF DOVER, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING PlPE-NlPPLESV SPEGIFIGATION forming part oil` Letters Patent No. 515,826, dated March 6, 1894. l

Application iiledJune 23. 1893. Serial No.478,6l6. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: the opposite end the socket or tube is pro- Be it known that I, TERENGE GIBNEY, a vided or formed with interior left-handed citizen of the United States, and a resident of screw threads 3, with which engage corre- Rockaway, in the county of Morris and State spending male threads 4, on a rod 5. This 5 ofNew Jersey,have invented certain new and screw rod at one end is formed with a head 6, 55

useful Improvements in Devices for Holding and is made angular at the opposite end to Pipe-Nipples; and I do hereby declare that receive a wrench for operating the same.

the following is 'a full, clear, and exact de-y The numeral 7 designates a removable nut scription of the invention, which will enable having an angular head 7a, a screw threaded lo others skilled in the art to which it appertains boss 8, adapted to engage with the screw 6o to make and use the same, reference being had threads 2, and at its center is formed with a ,to the accompanying drawings, which form a screw threaded aperture 9 to receive the screw part of this specification. threaded end of a nipple 10. 4In practice a My invention relates to improvements in number of these nuts are provided having 15 devices for holding pipe nipples while screw apertures 9, of varying sizes so as to hold nip- 65 threads are being cut thereon. The ordinary ples of diierent diameter. manner of making these nipples, (which con- The manner of using the device is as folsist of `short tubes or lengths of gas pipe, lows: A screw thread is cut on the end cfa screw threaded at each end,) is to take a gas gas or other pipe and a length cut oit of the zo pipe of the proper diameter, and securing the proper size to form a nipple. A nut is then 7o same in a vise, cut threads on the end thereof screwed into the enlarged end of the socket by a suitable die or cutting instrument. A or tube, the central aperture of which correproper length of the pipe is then cut oft to spends with the piece of pipe cut. The screw form the nipple and the screw threaded end rod is then adjusted to the proper distance 2 5 inserted between the jaws of the vise so as to from the inner end of the nut so as to form a 75 be held while the threads are being cut on stop for the piece of pipe 10, which is screwed the other end. This manner of making nipinto the central aperture until its end strikes ples is objectionable in that the screw threads said head, as seen in Fig. 1. ,The nipple will first cut are liable to be injured by being now be securely held and threads may new 3o clamped in the vise while the other threads be cut on its outer end without the slightest 8o are being cut. liability of thethreads previously cut being The object of my invention is to obviate the injured. By means of the head 6, the nipple above objections and provide a nipple holdis prevented from being inserted too far in ing device which can be securely held with the nut and thus binding in the same and it 3 5 out the slightest liability of the threads being also enables the last threads formed to be cut 85 injured; and it consists in the novel construc-y clear'up to the threads of the opposite end, tion and combination of parts hereinafter deif desired, as the said head can be so adj usted scribed and claimed. or regulated that onlya portion of the threads In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 first out enter the nut, as seen in Fig. 1. By 4o is a central Ahorizontal sectional view of` a making the threads of the rod left-handed it 9o nipple holder constructed in accordance with will not be rotated while the threads are being my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the out, which might happen if they were rightsocket, the nut and screw rod. Figs. 3 and handed or the same as those on the nipple.

4 are elevations of the screw rod and nut, Having thus described my invention, what `45 respectively, detached from the socket. Fig. I claim is- 95 5 is an elevation of the nipple. In a device for holding nipples thecomb- In the said drawings the reference numeral nation with the socket having one end en- 1 designates a socket consisting of a metallic larged and formed with interior screw threads tube, the bore ot which is enlarged at one and the other end provided with oppositely 5o end and formed with screw threads 2. At formed threads and the screw rod having an roo enlarged head located and movable i-n said my own I have hereunto affixed my signature socket, of the removable nut having an anin presence of two witnesses.

0'ular head a screw threaded boss adapted to ngage with said enlarged threaded end, and t TERENCE GIBNEY' 5 formed with a central screw threaded aper- Witnesses:

ture; substantially as described. Emol` B. MOTT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as JAMES H. SANDERS. 

